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What can you do under Whitmer order?

MARQUETTE, MI--   What activity is allowed under Governor Whitmer’s stay-at-home order? Those connected to:

  • Health care, public health
  • Law enforcement and first responders
  • Food and agriculture
  • Energy
  • Transportation and logistics
  • Public works
  • Communications, information technology and news media
  • Community-based government operations and essential functions
  • Critical manufacturing
  • Hazardous materials
  • Financial services
  • Chemical supply chains/safety
  • Defense industrial base
  • Child care (licensed or unlicensed workers who have arraigned to care for kids/dependents of critical infrastructure workers)
  • Suppliers/distribution centers/service providers
  • Businesses/operations employing critical infrastructure workers needed to support or facilitate the work of its critical infrastructure workers
  • Insurance industry
  • Critical labor union function positions
  • Workers/volunteers in the religious or private sector who provide food shelter and life necessities for the needy or economically needy or those with disabilities

So, you can go to the grocery store, get takeout, go to the doctor if necessary, take your pet to the veterinarian, bank, get gas and wash your clothes at a laundromat. Just be sure you keep six feet between yourself and other people, in accordance with CDC guidelines.

And always remember to wash your hands often and well.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.